2.5-inch WD Scorpio WD1000VE 100 Gb Western Digital Laptop Hard Drive Data Recovery

Karen H.
Augusta, GA

Hard-drive began making a loud clicking noise, and then refused to boot. The service technicians at CompUSA tried some very basic recovery techniques but said the data was unrecoverable.

• Thank you for recovering my data, I really appreciate it.
  Thank you again...
  ~Karen

Dane R.
Corvallis, OR USA

Failed in BIOS or CMOS. Drive spins up on power on but fails to be recognized by bios. No head slamming noises. Failed one morning when house was cool. That afternoon, tried again and booted fine. Wrote off some data to CD but had a system hang when connecting to a large backup drive. Had to power down and it has never booted since. I was mfg engineer for HP laptops and have recovered many drives myself. Even opening them sometimes. I uncovered the hidden screw, thinking I might open this one, but decided against it - It has NOT been opened. I suspect a firmware chip on the board has failed.

• Thank You very much for what appears to be a near perfect recovery.